{"product_id":"9781788167444","title":"On The Roof","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThatched roofs are like living organisms: each one a web of repair, replacement and alteration, shaped, dressed and re-moulded by every pair of hands that works on it.\u003c\/i\u003e\nThatching is one of the world's oldest crafts - an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allen discovered when he quit an office job to become an apprentice in Devon. Now a master of the trade, in \u003ci\u003eOn the Roof\u003c\/i\u003e he goes in search of its history and future, meeting fellow thatchers, from the son of a lobster fisherman who thatches with a dune grass in the Hebrides, to a Syrian refugee who found peace among the seagrass roofs of Denmark, to one of the first women to master Japan's 5,000-year-old thatching tradition.\n\nEye-opening, beautifully told and revealing a tradition hand-shaped over centuries, \u003ci\u003eOn the Roof \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.","brand":"Tom Allan","offers":[{"title":"Profile Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2025-10-17","offer_id":47350557081855,"sku":"9781788167444","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bbb8557f-adf7-4247-a319-ad983fa9acb8.jpg?v=1760456272","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781788167444","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}